*chuckle* The last cake reminds me of the t-shirts the class ahead of me made for our 60s-themed Homecoming one year. Every last one had a huge Mercedes logo on the front because one girl insisted that her mother said that was the correct peace sign.

#1: look, it's marked down. I wonder if they realized why? ("Gee, this cookie isn't selling for some reason. Let's discount it before it goes stale....")

#2: a short to-do list gone awry...with a numbering problem. So much for using the # "2" as a shortcut when you stick a # in front of it. I guess "too" legit "to" quit was just too confusing....

#3: This must have been a Chinese bakery. love the telephone coil balloon ribbons.

#4: love the splatter effect of the airbrush. makes it look so dirty. this must be another female baker who is clueless about sports. or a foreigner who isn't too familiar with baseball.or maybe they were trying to recycle a basketball cake as a baseball cake for the new sports season. yay for going green? as long as it's not mold?

#5 speaking of green...how do we know that was supposed to be a peace sign and not a screwed up tennis ball? It's the right color. "Piece" and love could mean they'd love to share a piece of cake, no?

wv. teacker: how a kid with bad handwriting spells the name of the person who TRIES to help him learn, to no avail judging by these cakes.

#1. Cake made during the great "e" shortage of 2008.#2. Second child, unlike the first, was born in wedlock, after which Dad decided on a vasectomy.#3. Scooby Doo looks forward to a one-week vaction with the gang.#4. Shaquille and A-Rod's love child's birthday cake.#5. We all know what the peace sign looks like. But did you know there's also a piece sign? Piece & love, y'all!

Just curious/nosy: Would you be wanting a baseball-themed cake for a baby shower because the mother-to-be was expecting, say, 10 or more babies? Or maybe the paternity was in question...?(Rude, me!) JUST KIDDING! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

The cakes (especially the peace symbol screwups) really beg the question...do our bakeries not have access to a computer that has google as the homepage? Can no one take the time to look up "peace sign" before they start drawing it? Better yet...have someone in the grocery chain management hang a paper sign in the bakery of each of their stores with a peace symbol. Or, create a book of symbols for bakers to follow.

I suppose even bad publicity is good publicity...(so they say)...but I don't know how that's even possible in this scenario!

Today's first wreck is sponsored by the letter 'e', who didn't pay up. Mr. Apostrophe boycotted in protest.

#2 (Oh, the irony.) Can we say, 'phone order'? I knew we could. "Dog, check it: Number two legit, number two quit. And I want that on a really nice cake."

#3 Do they have 'spring break' in Australia?

#4 (Reading left to right): The pitcher is facing the batter; he's winding up. Next, the opposing team decided to diss the batter by having the 3rd base guy come WAY in. Then the batter, then the umpire (who for some reason is not in position), then the catcher, who is looking at 3rd base even though the pitcher is winding up. The other players are over at the baseball field, laughing.

#5 When am I going to learn not to click on the pictures... The innuendo in the upper left corner. The trowel marks in the neon-green frosting. The CCC (patooie!) factor. If it hadn't been for that, I might have said that the yellow lines were a piece-lover's cutting diagram.

Haven't you heard of that medical condition where a person is missing their "awsome?" That's the chromosome that lets you say "Awwww..." when viewing things like baby sloths, baskets of kittens, or Hallmark commercials. Gene therapy has now advanced sufficiently so these unfortunate people, with the help of an "awsome" donor, can undergo a fairly simple procedure and experience "aw" for the first time.

While there's really no way you can thank someone for an "awsome" donation, this cakeookie was clearly an attempt to thank their donor. In this particular case, "your" is actually correct, and there is no missing "e." It's simply a more casual way of saying "Thank you for your awsome."

Ah Sharyn, thanks for the name for those monstrous cookies the bakers feel the need to decorate like cakes--the "cakeookie". I wondered what to call those, and now we know the name that can join the dreaded CCC (patoie!) as cake-wannabes.

2 Legit...looks like a last minute Grooms Cake. Bride realizes there IS such a thing as a Grooms Cake the day before the wedding, so she has her brother go pick up a cake at the store before the wedding. Brother thinks...white icing=wedding. 2 Legit 2 Quit=male coolness factor necessary for Groom's Cake.The groom probably thought it was awesome.

Lmao!! Those baseball players on a basketball court just about made me spit out soda on my keyboard. Also that Y looking symbol..Y is right. As in Y did you do this to me? Sheesh. Such lovely wrecks today..runs back to sunday sweets.

Yes, I know the difference between "your" and "you're." The cake wrecker, however, did not. Not only was "awsome" misspelled, he/she used the possessive form of the second person singular pronoun rather than the appropriate contraction. That's why I thought it would be funny to get it wrong a second time.

The fact that I have to explain that, however, proves that Jen & John made the correct decision as to what the comment should be (and why they have such an "awsome" blog and I don't.)

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